LONDON - A humanitarian crisis in Venezuela is accelerating the re-emergence of malaria, Chagas disease, dengue, Zika and other dangerous infectious diseases and threatens to jeopardize 20 years of public health gains, experts warned on Thursday.
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The world's largest bee, which until recently was feared to be extinct, was "rediscovered" last month on Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia, an international conservation organization said this week.
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Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Friday said he would like to "finish his own fights" as he sought to meet with the German ambassador to the Philippines after Berlin summoned the Philippines' acting envoy there.
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EL CALLAO, Venezuela - Venezuela's most successful financial operations in recent years have not taken place on Wall Street, but in primitive gold-mining camps in the nation's southern reaches.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - Israel's first spacecraft built to land on the moon was set for launch on Thursday from Florida on a mission that, if successful, would make the Jewish state only the fourth nation to achieve a controlled touchdown on the lunar surface.
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WASHINGTON - The United States will leave "a small peacekeeping group" of 200 American troops in Syria for a period of time after a U.S. pullout, the White House said on Thursday, as President Donald Trump pulled back from a complete withdrawal.
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WASHINGTON - An angry US judge issued a gag order on Thursday on Roger Stone after the former advisor to Donald Trump posted a picture of her on Instagram with crosshairs in the background.
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